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The Bulletin: July 16-22, 2025
The Bulletin: July 16-22, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Is There Enough Water to Quench the Thirst of AI Super Data Centers? | The Epoch Times
Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors – Ecosophia
The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality
Caffeine May Slow Cellular Aging By Activating a Protective Stress Response
Relief from drought in southwest U.S. likely isn’t coming, according to new research
NBL Live presentation: 485 Million years of climate info ignored. | Kevin Hester
Diesel Supply Risk–News Roundup
Surviving and Thriving: Earning a Living In a Dystopian World
U.S. proved reserves fell in 2023 from 2022 record – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Health Prepping: Eliminate Those Forever Chemicals
Modern Civilization Is Proving To Be a Very Fragile Thing
Nobody Lives “Off The Grid” – by Jessica
Large landslide disrupts water supply to 400 000 near Quito, Ecuador – The Watchers
The Way I See It – by Jeff McFadden – A Systemic Approach
Our Loathing Of Complexity | how to save the world
Waking Up To Reality: The End of Denial – Itsovershoot
If You Seek the Truth, Look for What’s Taboo
Societal Collapse Is Not a Bug
Forsaking Cahokia: Five Lessons From The Collapse of a Native American Empire
Go Solar, Go Vegan and Still Collapse
The ecological economy of food – by Gunnar Rundgren
Humans Are Wiping Out Water Bodies That Life Depends On, New Report Says – Inside Climate News
LISTEN TO THE DOERS – by Margi Prideaux, PhD
Carpe Momentum: The Climate Crisis Won’t Be Fixed, It Will Be Exploited
My Most Powerful Economic Insight
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Frank Kaminski reviews two peak oil documentaries from 2008
Frank Kaminski reviews two peak oil documentaries from 2008
BLIND SPOT: Peak Oil and the Coming Global Crisis
A Documentary Directed, Written, Photographed, and Edited by Adolfo Doring–1 hour, 26 minutes
and FUEL
A Documentary Directed and Narrated by Josh Tickell–1 hour, 52 minutes
These two documentaries on the world oil crisis came out in 2008, a time of growing concern over humankind’s energy future. In the decade since then, public interest in the issue has waned, but the relevance of these films hasn’t–they remain valuable, engaging portraits of the quandary we face at the end of the oil age. Blind Spot provides the proverbial 30,000-foot view of our situation, whereas Fuel gives a personal, on-the-ground account of one man’s activist crusade. Both films are far from perfect. One fails to adequately address how we should respond to our crisis, while the other is unrealistically optimistic about the responses it suggests. Still, both are important films, and they’re all the more compelling when viewed together, given their disparate but complementary perspectives.
Blind Spot is uncompromising about the realities we face as we leave the era of cheap, abundant oil behind. A formidable cast of geoscientists, physicists, environmental analysts, inventors and other experts details the essence of our plight. Our modern world, which requires ever-increasing quantities of easily obtainable oil, faces a future of ever-dwindling supply. Because oil is finite and the rate of new oil discoveries has been dropping since the early 1960s, logic and mathematics dictate that its production will eventually reach an all-time high, followed by permanent decline. The numbers indicate that the point of peak production, a phenomenon called “peak oil,” is imminent. And, sadly, alternative energy sources, for all the hype they’ve generated, are powerless to save us. They are nowhere near as energy-dense as oil, and we’ve already waited too long to invest meaningfully in them.
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